I have three hard drives..... C drive is regular ATA D drive is SATA I am guessing 150 E drive is SATA 3.0 (from what I a have heard supposed to be faster than 150) On my D drive I used to to get shrinking speeds at a constant 10000 kb/s. Now that I have installed my new 3.0 Sata drive ALL 3 of my drives are shrinking at 6800 kb/s. I dont understand what I changed to make all 3 shrink at the same speed and how to make my satas run faster. Any ideas??
Does the motherboard support SATA 2 if not the spec will be the same as SATA 1 regardless of how fast the drive is capable of running. The drives will only run as fast as the controller will let it. Different films encode at different speeds. To get the SATA drives running faster you will need to set them up as RAID 0, but your motherboard will need to support it, and you are going to have to change one of the SATA drives, as the RAID can only be set up on identical drives.
You need a motherboard which features support for the SATA II standard, SATA 2 is backwards compatible, but your Motherboard chipset will need to support it. If you have one of the latest boards then you may well be alright, look at the chipset and check the chipset manufacturers website.
The motherboard is kind of old. I was looking into getting a new motherboard and processor so hopefully that will fix the problem. What is a good program that can do a full test of each of my hard drives to see how they are performing?
Si-Soft Sandra will give you loads of system info, but is quite complex to get the full use out of it. Maybe try performance test software, or PC mark, most are easy to get hold of.
